HIST 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mount Pentelicus, Intersectionality, Oligarchy

• School: York University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2100
• Professor: Jonathan Edmondson

Document Summary

Slaves, metics and the economy of classical athens. The polis is an association of citizens (so aristotle in his politics). Peri(cid:272)les(cid:859) la(cid:449) of (cid:1008)(cid:1009)(cid:1005)/(cid:1004) restri(cid:272)ted (cid:272)itize(cid:374)ship to those (cid:449)ith athe(cid:374)ia(cid:374) father a(cid:374)d (cid:373)other. Grants of citizenship could be made only by the assembly. The plataeans were granted citizenship for their loyalty to athens. On the political importance of leisure for citizens. Banausic not operating on a refined of elevated level; mundane; relating to technical work. Most metoikoi could not acquire land, and were consequently excluded from agricultural activities, being active more in the areas of crafts, trade, and money-lending; they often performed low-status functions, e. g. that of a donkey-driver. Oles and status(cid:859) of (cid:449)o(cid:373)en: interse(cid:272)tionality in an(cid:272)ient athens. Literally translated, the greek ter(cid:373) (cid:652) (cid:894)heta ra) (cid:373)eans (cid:858)fe(cid:373)ale (cid:272)o(cid:373)panion(cid:859). It (cid:449)as first used by herodotus (2,134,1) to describe a thracian woman named rhodopis, who was sexually available to men and thus became rich.